2023 was my Year of Making. Although I’d not revealed it at the time, the reason behind this theme for the year was because I wanted it to be a year where I gathered the data needed to make a big decision. There was a big question at the heart of my 2023. Would I continue to pursue traditional publishing, or would I break free and go indy? As I revealed, I’d been very busy in late 2021 and 2022 running a number of pen names getting some real-world experience of the self-published market.

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